Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Teddy Taylor (Conservative), on Tuesday, 8 April 2003, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 33 members in total.

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FURTHER EDUCATION MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE

That this House notes the Government's objectives of encouraging life long learning and reducing the level of skills shortages in the economy and the acknowledgement in the recent Skills Strategy Progress Report that maintenance costs are a key obstacle for aged 19 and over; further notes the Foyer Federation's proposal to introduce a further education maintenance allowance for low income young people studying full time for level 2 and 3 qualifications; and calls upon the Government to address this issue, which would benefit up to 150,000 low income young adults each year who are currently not in education, employment or training, when they publish their final skills strategy in the summer.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1029 

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Finance Further education Grants

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk